Chapter 8: Ugly

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Perhaps a few years ago, due to her family background, Tian Tao couldn't hold her head up in front of children of the same age since she was a child, resulting in her inferiority complex and cowardly personality;

Perhaps, the shadow of her previous life and the death of her parents made her think of trying to leave this land that did not give her a happy childhood and youth.

Really as Lin Hong said, Tian Tao followed her to move to Lanzhou to take the college entrance examination, which is also a good place, at least Tian Tao got rid of poverty and can live a more decent life in the future.

The city of Lanzhou is much better developed than Yining, the northwest frontier.

Tian Kunhe, who was riding on a big horse, was thinking about his niece Tian Tao's life choices in this cold winter.

Tian Dog Leftover, who was waiting for his sister to come home at the door of the house, was wearing a fur hat, his little face was red from the cold, and he looked at Tian Kunhe in disappointment with his little toes, pouting his mouth and wanting to cry, and asked anxiously with a crying voice: "Uncle, where is my sister?!" ”

Tian Kunhe led the horse to the dog leftovers, squatted down to look at the poor baby, and answered the question, "Come, dog leftovers, uncle will take you to ride a horse." ”

"No, what about my sister?!" Tian Gou's leftovers' tears flowed down, grinning and crying, "My parents are dead, my brother doesn't want me, and now I don't even want my sister anymore, woo woo ---"

Unable to hold back the sadness in his heart anymore, Tian Kunhe bent down to pick up the six-year-old dog leftover with one hand, came to the stable with the reins with the other, and tied the horse's reins with one hand.

His cold big face was tightly pressed against the dog leftover's equally cold little face, and he said in a thick nasal voice: "Dog leftover, Tian Liu and Tian Tao don't want you, they want to join the army and go to school, and they can't come back, so they will pick you up in a few years." Don't be afraid, there is an uncle, the uncle wants you, the aunt wants you, and you Brother Tian Sui, they all want you. ”

When Tian Kunhe comforted the dog's leftovers, even he felt that his words were too unconfident, and he had a taste of self-deception.

Since the dog leftover was adopted by him, Tian Liu and Tian Tao disappeared as if they had disappeared from the world, and the two never came to Guangren Township to visit their younger brother.

However, the leaders of the county civil affairs department and the eldest brother Tian Kunshu came to visit the dog leftovers every year, bought him some candy, and left 20 yuan for the dog leftovers when he left, which was regarded as his annual child support.

In the young heart of Tian Gou's leftovers, he firmly remembered the idea of his brother and sister picking him up in a few years, and the scene of the uncle comforting him made his young, frightened, and helpless heart settle down, put his hands around the uncle's neck, and said with a smile: "Uncle wants me, my aunt wants me, and Brother Tian Sui wants me." ”

Although the childhood, youth and even youth after the dog leftover were raised in the family of the little uncle Tian Kunhe, the uncle took care of him as carefully as his father, in the process of his later growth, without Tian Liu and Tian Tao to accompany him, his own brother and sister did not take him back to the county home, the dog leftover like Tian Kunhe grew up in Guangren Township, he and Tian Kunhe's family have a blood thicker than water feelings.

But at least on this day, in this cold winter, his young heart had comfort, hope and sustenance.

Holding the dog leftover back to the house that was slightly warmer than the outside, Ji Yue'e, who was giving the child Tian Kunhe's sole, looked up at her husband's red eyes, there was no shadow of Tian Tao behind him, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly asked, "What?" What about Peach? Why didn't she come back with you? ”

Tian Kunhe sat by the stove with the dog leftovers in his arms, and roughly explained what Lin Hong meant, and Ji Yue'e sighed with embarrassment: "It's okay, it's okay, people go to high places, and water flows to low places." ”

Looking at a room of children, 15-year-old Tian Sui was taking his younger siblings to do their homework, Tian Kunhe cleared his throat and officially announced to his children: "The name of our dog leftover in the future is not called Tiangou leftover, and the scientific name in the future will be Tian Shan, which is the spruce tree on the Tianshan Mountain, do you know?" ”

"Tian Shan, this name is much better, knowledgeable, Tian Shan and Tianshan are homophonic, our father is not a person who has been studying for more than ten years, this is elegant, better than Tian Gou's leftovers."

"It's a name that's better than Tian Gou's leftovers, I don't know why Brother Tian Liu gave him this name."

"Haven't you heard grandma say before, it's easy to raise a cheap name."

……

Tian Sui and Tian Zhuang, Tian Cao, Tian Xin, and Tian Dou's younger siblings were chattering.

Tian Kunhe's majestic eyes glanced at the children chirping like sparrows, Tian Sui and the others immediately closed their mouths and sat precariously waiting for their father to say the following words.

Tian Kunhe looked at Tian Shan, who was happy after having a new name, and said seriously: "Tian Shan, three strokes behind the wooden characters, easy to write and remember, the key is that you can't cry all day long like a girl in the future, like a son doll (man), a son doll who can't stand up like the spruce of the Tianshan Mountains, remember?" ”

Tian Shan seemed to understand and nodded, but he understood the four words "son doll", he pursed his lips and nodded vigorously, this scene affected his life in this life, no matter how hard it is, he has to live like a son doll.

Many years later, Tian Shan finally understood the good intentions of the uncle to give him this name, and the uncle made him stand tall like the spruce of the Tianshan Mountains, dancing with the Tianshan Mountains, rooted in the deep mountains, towering to the clouds, and proud of the Tianshan Snow Mountains.

Tian Shan, who comprehended the essence of the name, grew up and used his young life and unapologetic youth to dry the earth's branches and grow old, deducing and interpreting the great national unity and the leniency of the people of all ethnic groups in the world.

"Okay, let's go read and write with my brothers and sisters." Tian Kunhe gently patted the dog's little buttocks.

"Come, Oda Shan, sister will teach you to write your name." Tian Kunhe's 7-year-old daughter Tian Dou beckoned to Gou Yuzi, among this group of children, Gou Yuzi is the most sticky to her sister Tian Dou.

Tian Kunhe's house was peaceful and calm, the children climbed on the small table to learn to read quietly, Ji Yue'e sat on the side of the kang and continued to accept the soles of her shoes, smiling from time to time looking at the children who were reading and writing seriously, warm and peaceful.

In the stable outside the house, Tian Kunhe held a pile of grass, fed the horses, and told this spiritual horse about his inner melancholy and doubts, "Horse, why do you say that Tian Liu hates dog leftovers so much?" I've been in the army for more than a year, and I haven't even sent a letter, let alone come to Guangren Township to see the dog's leftovers, hey---"

Zhang Xilin's family in the first production brigade, as the children grow up, the days become more and more chickens and dogs, which all come from his son Zhang Zhongming.

Zhang Xilin and Hu Su raised a total of three children, two boys and one girl.

The 22-year-old second son Zhang Zhongxin (nicknamed Gadiwa) has just married a new daughter-in-law Deng Qing, although the daughter-in-law Deng Qing is average, but she is also an honest and loyal person, and Zhang Zhongxin, who has been honest since childhood, is also a good match.

The eldest son Zhang Zhongming is 24 years old, and he has not found a daughter-in-law until now, so he asked several matchmakers to say goodbye.

On this day, after Zhang Zhongxin and his new daughter-in-law Deng Qing returned to the door, they brought back fifty eggs from their parents' house, and for lunch, Deng Qing came to scrambled eggs with leeks and made a sliver.

The family sat around the Eight Immortals table to eat, and as soon as Deng Qing sat down, he saw the eldest uncle Zhang Zhongming picking up a plate and pulling vegetables into his own bowl.

When he put down the plate, he saw that most of the eggs on a large plate were thrown into his bowl.

To the astonishment of Zhang Zhongxin's newlywed wife Deng Qing, the scrambled eggs with leeks in the eldest uncle's bowl were all sharp, and he didn't eat the food in his bowl first, and hurriedly began to pick up the eggs on the plate and stuff them into his mouth with his chopsticks.

Zhang Zhongming's eyes were sharp, and the eggs buried in the leeks were caught by a chopstick he aimed at, and just as he gobbled it up, there were not a few eggs left on the plate.

Mother-in-law Hu Su saw Zhang Zhongming holding a large piece of egg, and quickly knocked the back of her eldest son's hand with chopsticks.

Deng Qing thought that her mother-in-law, Hu Su, would give the slightly larger egg to her father-in-law or her new daughter-in-law.

Unexpectedly, mother-in-law Hu Su put eggs in her mouth and sent them to her mouth, the eggs in her mouth were not chewed, and her mother-in-law's chopsticks pulled a plate full of eggs to eat.

Zhang Zhongming, who was beaten by Hu Su's chopsticks, walked out of the house with a smile and a sharp meal in the bowl, squatting at the base of the wall and eating lunch.

Looking at the scene of the mother-in-law and the eldest uncle grabbing food at the table, Deng Qing was shocked and surprised.

How can such a thing happen at the dinner table of a family that only cares about one's own greed, isn't it a family to let each other eat?!

She looked at her husband next to her and her father-in-law opposite, her face was naturally eating leeks, and she seemed to have long been accustomed to this detail.

Zhang Shanshan, the sister-in-law who was sitting under her, dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, and squinted at Zhang Zhongming, who was at the base of the wall, and lowered her head and ate the noodles.

Mother-in-law Hu Su didn't eat a few bites of eggs, and she was so unhappy that she muttered to her husband Zhang Xilin, "Hurry up and find a daughter-in-law for this mourning star's Ga Qiuqiu and let him pass alone." ”

Zhang Xilin turned his head to look at the eldest son who was squatting at the base of the wall and gobbling up, and was so irritated that he complained: "His reputation is stinky, it seems that he can't marry a daughter-in-law in our Guangren Township, so he can only ask the matchmaker to introduce the girls from other communes." ”

The youngest son, Zhang Zhongxin, reminded angrily: "Didn't you introduce him to a girl from another commune last time, and the girl's family came to our Guangren Township to inquire, shook his head and left." ”

"Don't say it, this is all the long-tongued mother-in-law of Wang Mazi's family making a ditch in the back (secretly making a bad meaning), I'll clean her up later and let her shut up quietly." Hu Su chewed and pulled the strip and said viciously.

After lunch, Hu Su came to Wang Mazi's house to provoke, saying that Wang Mazi's mother-in-law had ruined Zhang Zhongming's marriage.

Wang Mazi's family is not vegetarian, and he thought to himself, you can only let your family Ga Qiuqiu do bad things all day long, and you can't let the neighbors break up.

The two of them "pointed to Maimang", pinched their waists and jumped and scolded each other, and they tore together and fought.

These two old women, both of whom are almost 50 years old, fought no less than the old men, and the slightly taller Hu Su tore off the hair of Wang Mazi's mother-in-law one by one.

Although Wang Mazi's family is shorter, she scratched Hu Su's face with her long nails.

The neighbors hurriedly came over to pull the shelf, and the villagers were disgusted with this unreasonable Hu Su, Hu Su was an unreasonable master who wanted to make trouble, and the big guy was pulling a partial shelf.

Hu Su's arm was dragged by two women, and the two women in front of Wang Mazi's mother-in-law persuaded her mouths and did not grab her hands.

The short mother-in-law Wang Mazi got out and ran to Hu Su and stretched out her hand to tear her hair, so painful that Hu Su raised her foot and kicked Wang Mazi's mother-in-law, but she couldn't kick it.